Ravishing radishes

I got up on saturday morning to find my radishes bigger than ever, and some of them even ripe for pulling (the size of a 10p piece). My first produce! Eight weeks after I sowed their seeds. Six gorgeous little red globes. I've manged to grow the easiest vegetable that apparently even a small child can handle, despite their suffering at the mouths of the slugs. I'm dead chuffed. (Cue raddish montage \/)

Mum and Merlin were also present for the occasion...

The first set of Tomatoes have survived the transplanting and are doing well. This was taken on Saturday, but it seems like they're already twice the size!

After sampling my produce I took some down to Rosie's, and we enjoyed them with salad and beer after a walk through some bright yellow Rapeseed fields. I can't believe how dry the ground is still. In the field below it had deep cracks running all over like a desert. We watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth in the evening, and it's hammered home even harder to me how we all need to take action on climate change as soon as possible. It's possibly the biggest challenge facing the human race in our entire history (linked in with resource management and over population). To oversome it is going to involve an altogether different way of thinking and acting together.

After getting back from another hot (felt like July), lazy day at Rosie's, I watered my plants and made my slug beer traps. I also planted some Mange Tout, more Little Gem and some parnsips where there should be some but aren't - although the horse may already have bolted for those. I prepared a seed tray of Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Calabrese too. Mmmm....

The plan for next week is to get my first Tomatoes outside in a makeshift mini greenhouse Rosie's parents gave me for my birthday.

Helpers and Bluebells

I had some help in the garden this weekend, first of all from my cousin Jesse, who came round for tea with his brother Harley and my Uncle Frazer. He watered my poor dried out plants for me.

Then later on, Rosie and I re-potted my first batch of tomatoes, sowed some more carrots and spring onions, and then did some weeding and thinning. My potatoes, spring onions and radishes are all looking healthy (see below), and the lettuce and rocket seedlings are getting bigger. I was a bit concerned about the Tomatoes surviving the transplant but they seem OK so far.


On Sunday Rosie and I went for a walkthrough a lush carpet of bluebellls in the woods at Simms Copse, up on the Downs near Effingham. I'm just annoyed my camera batteries died on me before I got a better shot of them.